Bread recipe

[Highland laddie]

Just completed a rebuild of my Taylors 030 in preparation for an extended summer cruise. I miss fresh (decent) bread when away and while I'm a passable cook and have baked bread previously but never afloat. Just wondering if any members of this great community have any experience to share? In particular getting it to rise (the bread that is) or perhaps bread without yeast? All suggestions appreciated.
Thanks Gerry

 

[philip_stevens]

I've kept these recipes since 1997!!

SIMPLE RECIPES.

FRYING-PAN BREAD.

Ingredients
1 cup flour
1 tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp. salt

Method.
Mix dry ingredients together. Warm and grease frying pan. Add enough water to dry ingredients to form a dough, shape into a bap about 1in thick and dust with flour. Lay in pan and cook till crisp.

Variations
Add 1 tsp. of sugar to make the bread crisper
½ - 1 egg will make the bread thicker and richer
substitute milk for water to give a better flavour and colour
spice your bread up with nutmeg, cinnamon or fruit [you’ll need to add a bit more baking powder for the fruit option]

Also,
TUNA AND SWEETCORN CHOWDER

Ingredients [serves 4 - 6]
350g can sweetcorn
300g can new potatoes, diced
200g can tuna, dried
2 tbsp. oil
large onion

2 tbsp. flour
2 tsp. paprika
850ml milk
1tbsp freeze-dried mixed herbs
salt and black pepper


Method.
Drain the sweetcorn and reserve the juice. Fry the onion in the oil until soft and stir in the flour and paprika. Cook for one minute, mix half the milk with the sweetcorn juice, stir into the onion mixture and bring to the boil. Add the remaining milk, season and add sweetcorn and potatoes. Simmer for five minutes. Add tuna and herbs and simmer for five minutes, serve with wedges of soda bread.


TOMATO AND CARROT SOUP WITH PESTO CROÛTES.

Ingredients. [Serves 4]
500g carton creamed tomatoes
500ml carton carrot juice
1 tsp. brown sugar

3 tsp. pesto
salt and black pepper


For the Croûtes.
1 french stick, sliced and toasted
remaining pesto from jar
grated cheese

Method.
Combine the creamed tomatoes, carrot juice, sugar and pesto in a saucepan and heat through. Season. Spread remaining pesto on to the toasted slices and sprinkle with cheese. Melt under the grill. Serve the soup piping hot with the crisp croûtes.


Enjoy.

 

[prv]

If all you want is bread, rather than the pleasure of baking, then those part-baked baguettes in sealed packs are worth having. They last a couple of months in the locker, then you just chuck them in the oven for ten minutes for fresh bread.

Pete

 

[William_H]

Bread

We have been making bread for years in a breadmaking machine.
500grms of plain flour
2teaspoons of salt 2 teaspoons of sugar
2 tablespoons of margerine or oil
1.25 teaspoons of dried yeast.
Mix it up warm it leave it mix it again etc etc.

I have often wondered how a bread making machine would go on a boat running from an inverter. I would disconnect the heating element which means quite low power consumption for just the motor and electronics. Of course you would have to warm the mixture first and bake it in an oven. Or just select piza dough. In this case there would be a high current drain for a short while when the mix is warmed to 70 degrees or so for proving. So perhaps OK on a bigger inverter. olewill

 

[TQA]

Beer bread

3 cups flour (sifted)
3 teaspoons baking powder (omit if using Self-Rising Flour)
1 teaspoon salt (omit if using Self-Rising Flour)
1/4 cup sugar
1 (12 ounce) can beer Newcastle Brown or Theakstons Old P are my preferances.
1/2 cup melted butter (1/4 cup will do just fine)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Mix dry ingredients and beer.
Pour into a greased loaf pan.
Pour melted butter over mixture.
Bake 1 hour, remove from pan and cool for at least 15 minutes.

No waiting kneading proving etc.

 

[doug748]

Soda bread is nice for breakfast, this slimmed down version works on a boat:

1/2lb white flour or a 50/50 mix with wholemeal
1/2 teaspoon of Bicarbonate of Soda
1 level teaspoon of Crean of Tartar
Soured milk - powdered will do, with a squeeze of lemon
Pinch of salt

Mix and dollop two or three lumps onto a baking tray. This mix can be much improved with the addition of marge and egg/s.

Thanks TQA I will be giving your suggestion a go.

 

[WoodyP]

Rather than lots of ingredients to faff about with, just buy the ready mix bags from Wrights or Hovis. They work really well, just add warm water, mix, nead, rest , mix, rest, bake.

 

[Highland laddie]

Bread on Board

Many thanks to you all for the bread ideas and other menu items.
Gerry

 

[Tradewinds]

Another one to try

Colin Lowe's easiest bread to make in the world

 

[WilliamUK]

I was also going to mention soda bread. Assuming you have an oven aboard, Doug's recipe should do the job. I tend to use buttermilk rather than soured milk but whichever is easiest for you.

If you don't have an oven, a pan in a pan with something non-flammable to separate them should make a good imitation of the cooking pot soda bread was cooked in once upon a time.

Easier yet would be to find somewhere that sells Oddlums just-add-water soda bread mix. It's better than I expected it to be.
I get mine from the Irish Centre in Manchester, dunno what the situation would be like wherever you are.

 

[apogee]

Bread mix from Lidl and follow the instructions, although add maybe a little less water than the recipe. Brill!

 

[WilliamUK]

Bread mix from Lidl and follow the instructions, although add maybe a little less water than the recipe. Brill!

Always add less than the recipe - then work up slowly until you get the right consistency. It's really difficult to get the water back out again if you add too much.

 

[alant]

3 cups flour (sifted)
3 teaspoons baking powder (omit if using Self-Rising Flour)
1 teaspoon salt (omit if using Self-Rising Flour)
1/4 cup sugar
1 (12 ounce) can beer Newcastle Brown or Theakstons Old P are my preferances.
1/2 cup melted butter (1/4 cup will do just fine)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Mix dry ingredients and beer.
Pour into a greased loaf pan.
Pour melted butter over mixture.
Bake 1 hour, remove from pan and cool for at least 15 minutes.

No waiting kneading proving etc.

1/4 cup of sugar??

 

[prv]

1/4 cup of sugar??

Cup measurements make it look like an American recipe to me, and they do like their bread sweet (ugh!)

Pete

 

[nigelmercier]

If all you want is bread, rather than the pleasure of baking, then those part-baked baguettes in sealed packs are worth having. They last a couple of months in the locker...

I find they all go in a few days

 

[alant]

Cup measurements make it look like an American recipe to me, and they do like their bread sweet (ugh!)

Pete

That's because of their corn 'industry'.
They produce corn sugar & have to dump it somewhere, so use people as dustbins!

 

[tolhurstorganic]

When I used to have Blakes I was never happy with bread baked in it. So used to bake in a pressure cooker, you need a round baking tin or a clay flowerpot that fits the pressure cooker. After rising the bread place on stands in p.cooker with an inch of water, or not enough to come up to the base of the pot.
Clamp the lid on and allow around 8 minutes once the p cooker has got up to pressure. Bread comes out very soft but well cooked, this is steam baking rather than heat baking so you wont get a crust. I have done it with 100% wholemeal and it turns out lovely. Saves heaps of energy!

 

[Rigger Mortice]

I've baked bread and pizzas on a Cobb. A bit of a faff, but very good.

 

[boatbuilder]

If you discard the rubber seal, and saftey valve on your pressure cooker, then you have a serviceable oven. You can then bake bread without the smell of parrafin that taylors impart.

 

[mireland]

Always add less than the recipe - then work up slowly until you get the right consistency. It's really difficult to get the water back out again if you add too much.

May be useful to know that most bread uses between 65% and 70% water to flour. With white flour a 70% mix is lMHO quite wet and sticky but does produce great results. If you want it easy go a bit lower.